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He's using powerline adapters, the door being open or closed has nothing to do with it. Additionally, he's just testing on WiFi to make sure the speeds are good downstairs but the actual connection from upstairs to downstairs is powerline.

Why not both?

I was thinking about this today, but not in the narrow sense of "What OS do you use on your computer?", but "What OSes do you use every day?", considering all devices you use of any kind. In my case, I started adding up things, and it got interesting.
 
On computers, on an every day basis, I use Windows 10 Home (my 2 laptops), Windows XP and Vista (at work, embedded and kiosks), ChromeOS (demos at work), and Android (tablets at home and work, old repurposed phone to media player, handheld scanner at work). On a 'some days' basis, I use Windows 7 on my lady's laptop and her work computer. Maybe once a month, I use Ubuntu (forget which build, it is older on an old laptop), Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and 2000.
 
Where it gets really interesting, though is the 'not exactly a computer' devices. My cell phone isn't considered a smartphone, but it isn't just super barebones firmware either - it runs BrewOS. The Amazon ecosystem devices we have are basically all FireOS, which is based on Android. My Vizio TV (pre-'Chromecast built in') I'm not totally sure of, although it appears to be Android based, but at very least uses a Linux kernel. I don't exactly know what runs the DVRs, or my LG 4K Bluray player, or my old Sylvania Bluray player, but I know that Bluray players at least started out using Java heavily for their functionality.
 
We have a lot more software running our lives than we often realize, from many disparate sources.

this one.

Actually, SCSI was used heavily in server systems, and Sun systems. It was a very robust technology compared to IDE (PATA), but wasn't as cheap. For most consumer users, IDE was adequate and much more affordable. Apple has always like long term durability, despite what some would have you believe.
Says someone with robust, affordable internet access. The store where I work sells a LOT of physical media still, exactly because of this. Affluent urbanites love to act like everyone has the fortune of great access, which they have due to market density offering great profitability, and mock those who don't. It is still faster to ship physical media than use the internet to move large amounts of data. I'd bet if you put it to the test, a truckload of Blurays can get more content moved cheaper and faster than streaming an equal number of instances of the same content over the available internet connections.

How? What vector? Malicious ads? This is a big part of why ad blocking is so popular. Email? There's your safe practices right there. Software? Be careful and mindful of where you get software, another safe practice.
 
I haven't seen a story about a worm (self propagating software) in a very long time, and never one that brings ransomware. Every single example I've ever seen or heard of, of someone getting ransomware, was from something they had to take action to install. Windows Update hasn't delivered it yet (and heaven help them if they did), and it is extremely unlikely it will.
 
The one most consistent way that malware has to get into a system isn't exploiting a machine passively, it relies on social engineering - hacking the human - to get the malicious code in place. Contravention of malware that can propagate itself directly (worms) is far too easy to block at the infrastructural level, and the whole of the IT industry is heavily invested in doing so. Those malicious ads I spoke of before? Major, reputable ad services are constantly on the lookout for malicious ads, so they can remove them and block the advertisers from using their services. If they didn't, they'd be prime targets for something scarier than malware - lawyers.

How's this for clean?
 

 
That's pretty much how both my laptops look. Thanks to the icon biased nature of Android, my tablets and old phone turned media player have some icons crapped around on my ubiquitous wallpaper. My old BrewOS slider phone even sports a suitably sized variation of this wallpaper, and the main screen has no icons. I despise icons/shortcuts/files crapped on the desktop. I also customize my Start Menu/main menu on devices to streamline them.

I ran into a problem (which I mentioned in a comment to the video itself) with these Panasonic ToughBooks that is a big, giant, glaring one when used by the market that is prime: availability of replacement charging power supplies. These are used by telecommunications techs a fair bit, and by specialty techs who work in tough environs or on very heavy, specialized equipment (think oil fields, large factories, mines). They are often in places far from easy access to retail or fast delivery of freight. If they lose or break a charger, they can't really wait 1-2 days of shipping time for replacement, at least without a seriously costly downtime for whatever they're working on. I had a guy come looking for a replacement for his ToughBook, and found out they don't use the very common, nearly ubiquitous 19v input; they use 15.6-16v. They also appear to often have a peculiar connector, which doesn't help things. So, your chances of finding a replacement charger in the field on short notice are pretty close to zero. Maybe this is why Panasonic offers 40-80 hrs of battery capability, so hopefully you've got 2 charged batteries to get you through the long wait of ordering a replacement shipped to your current location in the ass end of nowhere. Of course, how likely are you to find out your brick is dead or maybe even damaged until you find the battery is dead and you're needing to plug in to get your work done?
 
Maybe Linus could whisper in the ears at Panasonic and suggest a more common input voltage be used.

Every form of security, even those of low robustness, is a useful layer in a total security approach.
 
Sounds like not an unpopular opinion, right?
 
Try suggesting that turning off SSID broadcast represents a useful layer of security in your wireless network. Many, many times have I been chided for suggesting it as part of the most secure wireless network setup you can have. Security through obscurity isn't a robust tactic by itself, for absolutely sure, but it is a valid layer in a deeply layered security defense plan. If you are where there are many visible APs, someone looking for an opportunity will go for ones they can immediately see first, unless you are already their specific target. Even if you are isolated in a rural place like I am now, if the SSID doesn't show up until someone communicates with it (the easiest way to overcome a lack of SSID broadcast is promiscuous packet inspection), someone is likely to assume you simply have no wireless network at all. Since availability of access is already low, it is easier to assume there is none and move on. Attacking a wireless network requires physical proximity, and a person or vehicle in a rural area that doesn't normally exist there stands out to everyone who is normally there.
 
This is just one example. There are others. Working retail, I have coworkers who won't use some security devices in their departments because 'they'll just cut them off anyway'. I remind them that they aren't there to be absolute security, but raise the bar of who will attempt to steal something, and slow even skilled and determined people enough that wary workers should be more likely to catch and interrupt attempts at theft. Relying on only one layer that is supposedly most robust, or giving up and applying none at all, is a worse solution than using every layer you can.

“Yeah. My dad hacks.”
”He logs in to his computer”

How's this for clean?
 

 
That's pretty much how both my laptops look. Thanks to the icon biased nature of Android, my tablets and old phone turned media player have some icons crapped around on my ubiquitous wallpaper. My old BrewOS slider phone even sports a suitably sized variation of this wallpaper, and the main screen has no icons. I despise icons/shortcuts/files crapped on the desktop. I also customize my Start Menu/main menu on devices to streamline them.

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This is My Desktop
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Where you have plastic surfaces, or some types of paint surfaces, and dust is clinging to them from static charge (not good around a computer anyway), use a dryer sheet to wipe the dust off. It'll work amazingly well. This is also handy if you do case mods on plastic parts with a dremel tool - the little plastic bits tend to become very staticy and cling to everything. The dryer sheet makes them come loose and they tend to get snagged up and trapped in the sheet very well.

Where you have plastic surfaces, or some types of paint surfaces, and dust is clinging to them from static charge (not good around a computer anyway), use a dryer sheet to wipe the dust off. It'll work amazingly well. This is also handy if you do case mods on plastic parts with a dremel tool - the little plastic bits tend to become very staticy and cling to everything. The dryer sheet makes them come loose and they tend to get snagged up and trapped in the sheet very well.

You can try to use a clean paintbrush in tandem with an air duster. 
 

There is always a sticky layer of dust bellow the "normal" layer of dust. I think.
It's easy to remove with a towel, but a duster can't remove it.

I find that attitude from manufacturers to be annoying. I (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) like to have choices and I resent it when manufacturers make those choices for us, no matter what we may want. Just because something isn't as hot a seller as it once was doesn't mean nobody wants it anymore but all the manufacturers care about is maximizinbg profits. They don't realize how much business they lose because they anger potential customers who resent the business' attitudes. This kind of attitude from Apple alone would be enough to drive me away from them if weren't multiple other reasons for me to boycott them.
 
Granted, you qualified your statement somewhat in the second sentence but blanket statements like your first sentence can come back and bite you where you sit. While ODD usage by computers is down dramatically, t, it's not dead by any means. I use mine almost entirely for playing and ripping CDs, DVDs, and BDs.

The thing I think Apple should keep doing that already sets itself apart is the long term support of their devices. Even though Apple releases new devices every year like clockwork, and a new version of their OSs every year in the same fashion, most of their devices will enjoy 5 years of usable lifespan in terms of being supported to run current software, and receive security updates, and often more like 7 years or even 10 years. Microsoft and Google are both slipping into a pattern of 'rapid release' that is coming along with rapid obsolescence. When an Android phone bought new last year, with an OS no more than a year old when the device was introduced, no longer supports a current app, that's just ridiculous. Windows isn't quite so terrible yet, but MS has been putting a lot of pressure on enterprise to up the pace of migration to new OSs. Enterprise deployment is the only thing that's kept MS from shortening support spans to as little as 1 year for basic functionality. They are already basically reaching that level with anything Windows 10 - being told the long delayed build I got earlier in the year will soon be 'obsolete' is absurdly stupid.
 
Apple's recent adoption of the USB-C connector for the iPad Pro bodes well for returning to something Apple was actually starting to do quite well; use open standards. Apple ditched proprietary ADB for USB and Firewire (IEEE1394), abandoned proprietary floppy disks in favor of standard optical media, and abandoned their proprietary display ports in favor of VGA, DisplayPort, and HDMI. If they would drop Lightning (since they missed the chance to open it up to everyone, which would've precluded most of the need and motivation to develop USB-C), there would be no hardware compatibility issue to handling peripherals and other connectivity and charging. Apple would then be left to weeding out the proprietary software implementations, like their goofy Air Drop supplanting a proper Bluetooth stack for file transfers. It would be so nice to just BT a pic from an iPhone to an Android phone, or a contact (vcard), or any other file. I know they understand the common BT standards - their implementation of BT audio is surprisingly effective.
 
Oh, and may he rest in peace, Steve Jobs is dead - can we get past the 'bag of hurt' and have the option of a Bluray drive in a Mac? It has been long enough, it could even be a 4K Bluray player.

Could be because it's not properly grounded. Does it happen on other devices, or with other headphones/speakers?

As cool as this is, I wouldn't recommend someone thinking they could easily 'counterhack' someone. Back in the days of Yahoo chat, a couple of the tech oriented rooms often had folks asking for help to 'learn to hack' so they could 'hack their hacker back'. The vast majority of the time, they were either dealing with someone WAY beyond their skill level, and likely to remain that way, or just someone they knew that could predict their actions and even possibly had physical access to their hardware, although they'd claim nobody could possibly be in that position that would 'hack' them. (Most of the latter were really just script kiddies.)
 
In this case, they just managed to get the wrong target, like the guy that stole or bought Zoz's stolen Mac.

When it's that bad, they just fall over dead. When their bodies are found, nobody understands what caused it, so nobody has complained.

When it's that bad, they just fall over dead. When their bodies are found, nobody understands what caused it, so nobody has complained.

Almost 20 years ago, I took a motherboard with a bad hard drive controller (murdered every HD I connected to it) and made a CD boot only system out of it, with components that generally worked in every Linux distro of the time. I had a collection of live CD distros to run on it. I was fully an adult, but I wouldn't be surprised if some kid somewhere was doing the same thing. I know I've heard of kids using live distros to get around being locked out of their computers, without leaving any trace.

I was thinking about this today, but not in the narrow sense of "What OS do you use on your computer?", but "What OSes do you use every day?", considering all devices you use of any kind. In my case, I started adding up things, and it got interesting.
 
On computers, on an every day basis, I use Windows 10 Home (my 2 laptops), Windows XP and Vista (at work, embedded and kiosks), ChromeOS (demos at work), and Android (tablets at home and work, old repurposed phone to media player, handheld scanner at work). On a 'some days' basis, I use Windows 7 on my lady's laptop and her work computer. Maybe once a month, I use Ubuntu (forget which build, it is older on an old laptop), Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and 2000.
 
Where it gets really interesting, though is the 'not exactly a computer' devices. My cell phone isn't considered a smartphone, but it isn't just super barebones firmware either - it runs BrewOS. The Amazon ecosystem devices we have are basically all FireOS, which is based on Android. My Vizio TV (pre-'Chromecast built in') I'm not totally sure of, although it appears to be Android based, but at very least uses a Linux kernel. I don't exactly know what runs the DVRs, or my LG 4K Bluray player, or my old Sylvania Bluray player, but I know that Bluray players at least started out using Java heavily for their functionality.
 
We have a lot more software running our lives than we often realize, from many disparate sources.

When it's that bad, they just fall over dead. When their bodies are found, nobody understands what caused it, so nobody has complained.